Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Slovakia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Aloha Tigers to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Matthew Bourne,
Lalann,
Juan Atkins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eddi Front,
Amon Düül II,
AZ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Subhumans,
The Mojo Men,
The Young Rascals,
Kaleidoscope,
Interpol,
Altered Images,
Technova,
Negative Approach,
the Association,
Terrestrial Tones,
Shuggie Otis,
Albert Ayler,
Colin Newman,
Laurel Aitken,
The Dead C,
Bill Wells,
Ice-T,
The Durutti Column,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Raincoats,
Roxette,
Ossler,
The Red Krayola,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Index,
T.S.O.L.,
Man Eating Sloth,
Black Moon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Amazonics,
Second Layer,
Jacob Miller,
Nirvana,
Bill Near,
Tres Demented,
Symarip,
Theoretical Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Sonics,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Black Sheep,
Pagans,
Aural Exciters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fat Boys,
Gregory Isaacs,
Robert Hood,
Flash Fearless,
Ohio Players,
Deakin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.